In a report on its web site dated
April 2010, entitled
"Meet The
Patriots," the Southern Poverty Law Center
($PLC) profiled
"36 individuals
at the heart of the resurgent [patriot]
movement." (In reading the list, I counted only 35
"patriots"
and 5 "enablers"
for a total of 40. I`m not really sure how the SPLC came
up with "36." Perhaps their ability to count is commensurate with their
ability to appreciate patriotism and liberty.)

The SPLC (founded by Morris Dees)
sees itself as America`s guardian against
"right wing
militias" and loves to label conservatives and
libertarians that it doesn`t like as
"extremists."
The SPLC is one of the most ultra-liberal organizations
in the country and should be dismissed as a group of
paranoid leftists, not worthy of thought or mention.

The sad truth is, however, our
federal government has chosen to exalt the SPLC to the
position of being its
"go to" source for information regarding
"potential
domestic terrorists" and similar characterizations.
As a result, the information and reports disseminated by
SPLC wind up in police reports and bulletins all over
the United States. As an example, the SPLC had its
fingerprints all over the infamous MIAC report. One
could even question whether the SPLC is
merely
a front organization for Big Brother.

Therefore, it is highly likely that
the report negatively profiling 40 American patriots
will find its way into Department of Homeland Security
(DHS)
fusion centers and be distributed to police agencies
all across the country.

So, should the 40 people who find
themselves targeted by SPLC expect some kind of
government/police attention? Are we really that close to
Nazi-style persecution in America? If the SPLC has its
way, the answer seems to be a definite yes.

See the SPLC report
here. [VDARE.com note: VDARE.com itself doesn`t
appear on this list—this is the
"patriot" list and the SPLC has us on the
"racist"
list, although we really are very patriotic. However,
the SPLC comment on Dr. Baldwin includes the fact that
"his columns also
are archived
on VDARE.com, a racist website that regularly bashes
immigrants." This is what we`ve called
"Guilt By
Syndication".]

The SPLC, no doubt, sees each
person on the above list as being a leader of the
"radical right,"
a "conspiracist,"
and
"antigovernment."

But understand—the SPLC makes its
living off of big-government, leftist ideology. To say
it is a shill for Big Government Liberalism is an
understatement. The SPLC is so radical it makes the
ACLU
look conservative!

Again, this SPLC report would not
even merit a mention (much less an entire column) except
for the fact that the SPLC has become a source of
information fuelling anti-freedom hysteria for countless
bureaucrats at the DHS. Add this to the previously
exposed
MIAC and
DHS
reports, and the Army major`s report blaming
"millennialist"
Christians for much of the ills of the world, and a
disturbing trend is quickly developing: so-called
right-wing ANYTHING is being targeted and demonized as a
"public menace."

But the lists that you and I are
not seeing are even more disturbing.

Joel Skousen quotes (Radar
Magazine`s) Christopher Ketcham`s
The Last Roundup
[PDF]
as asking if the federal government is
"compiling a
secret enemies list of citizens who could face
detention?"

He goes on to say:

"A number of former government employees and intelligence sources with
independent knowledge of domestic surveillance
operations claim the program that caused the flap
between [former assistant attorney general under
John Ashcroft, James]
Comey and the
White House was related to a database of Americans who
might be considered potential threats in the event of a
national emergency. Sources familiar with the program
say that the government`s data gathering has been
overzealous and probably conducted in violation of
federal law and the protection from unreasonable search
and seizure guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.

"A veteran CIA intelligence analyst who maintains active high-level
clearances and serves as an advisor to the Department of
Defense in the field of emerging technology tells Radar
that during the 2004 hospital room drama [between
former Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Attorney General
Ashcroft, in an attempt by Card to coerce a very ill
Ashcroft to authorize President Bush`s secretive
domestic spying programs as his assistant—and
acting—attorney general had refused to do so],
James Comey expressed concern over how this secret
database was being used `to accumulate otherwise private
data on non-targeted U.S. citizens for use at a future
time.`"

The report further states:

"According to a senior government official who served with high-level
security clearances in five administrations, `There
exists a database of Americans, who, often for the
slightest and most trivial reason, are considered
unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be
incarcerated. The database can identify and locate
perceived "enemies of the state" almost
instantaneously.`"

At this point, Skousen noted,
"And that is precisely why the census bureau took a GPS coordinate on
every front door in America, secretly linking this to
dissidents and their known addresses."

This database of Americans who are
perceived to be potential
"enemies of the
state" goes by the code name
"Main Core."
And according to the report,

"One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed
in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a
national emergency, these people could be subject to
everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to
direct questioning and possibly even detention.

"Officials at the Department of Homeland Security begin actively
scrutinizing people who—for a tremendously broad set of
reasons—have been flagged in Main Core as potential
domestic threats [sound familiar?]. Some of these
individuals might receive a letter or a phone call,
others a request to register with local authorities.
Still others might hear a knock on the door and find
police or armed soldiers outside. In some instances, the
authorities might just ask a few questions. Other
suspects might be arrested and escorted to federal
holding facilities, where they could be detained without
counsel until the state of emergency is no longer in
effect."

The report also noted that former
Assistant Attorney General James Comey

"had concluded that the use of that `Main Core` database compromised the
legality of the overall NSA domestic surveillance
project. `If Main Core does exist,` says Philip Giraldi,
a former CIA counterterrorism officer and an outspoken
critic of the agency, `the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) is its likely home. If a master list is
being compiled, it would have to be in a place where
there are no legal issues—the CIA and FBI would be
restricted by oversight and accountability laws—so I
suspect it is at DHS, which as far as I know operates
with no such restraints.` Giraldi notes that DHS already
maintains a central list of suspected terrorists and has
been freely adding people who pose no reasonable threat
to domestic security."

So, is there a secret list of 8
million "unfriendly" Americans kept by DHS (if there is, dear reader, you
are probably on it!)?

Does anyone reading this column
doubt that our federal government is more than willing
and capable of doing such a thing?

All of us are quite familiar with
the government`s
"no fly" or
"flagged" airline passenger list. I can personally
attest to the authenticity of this list, as airport
officials in San Antonio, Texas, told me that I`m on it.

I also made it to the
"list of three"
that were named in the MIAC report (the other two were
Ron Paul and Bob Barr).

And now I am on the SPLC list of
"patriots" (not a compliment in the SPLC lexicon). Wow! I never
realize how popular I was! (With the exception of Ron
Paul, I`m probably on more lists than anyone in
America.)

Who would ever have thought that
the day would come in America when to speak up for
freedom, constitutional government, and the principles
expressed by our Founding Fathers would land one on a
government watch list?

Well,
that day is here, my friend!

No doubt, the major media and
federal government—in order to further ostracize
patriotic, God-fearing Americans—will use the SPLC
patriot hit list as a vehicle to carry our country
further down the road of oppression.

But what the radical left
fearmongers at the Southern Poverty Law Center fail to
realize is that the more they try to marginalize and
ostracize American patriots such as you and me, the more
they isolate themselves from America`s future, because
millions and millions of hard-working, God-fearing,
liberty-loving Americans are not going to sit back and
let Morris Dees and his cabal of Big Government elitists
destroy the principles of freedom in our land.

So, people such as Morris Dees can
put us on as many lists as they like; we will never let
liberty die! And the more they try to demonize us, the
more people will want to join with us. You see, freedom
burns deep and strong in the hearts of real Americans.

And that`s something the SPLC can`t
extinguish—no matter how many lists it makes!

Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the
pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola,
Florida. He hosts a
weekly radio show. His
website is
here.